Yam Uncle's Thoughts

My last post made me realize that I could do a little bit more with my diet, be more critical about what I was eating and what I needed to eat.  So as a first step, I watched a video on how to plan my diet.  Namely, this video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWpzxsVntuA I think I just typed "Alan Thrall nutrition" to get this one.  I've always turned to Alan Thrall for info like this.  I'm not too sure why, but probably because he likes to keep things simple.  Especially with a topic like nutrition where I felt like I could get overwhelmed quickly, this was a good start.  (To put some context to that point above, I was hearing a loooot of different things on the web about nutrition.  OmarIsuf said a gram of protein per pound of bodyweight, which is pretty standard.  But Greg Nuckols' website, Stronger by Science, had this article where apparently 120g of protein is enough for all people, regardless of bodyweight?  I read the articl...

After almost two years off from lifting weights, I recently got back into it.  It was a slow start at first, but I'm starting to see my lost strength come back.  My muscles feel tighter and my body feels lighter and fresher.  My mind is clearer.  I finally have somewhere to put all this pent up energy in.  I can really say going back to the gym has been one of the best decisions this year.  A big reason why I stopped lifting at first, probably around my final semester of college, was not having enough time to train, sure, but also I think due to how I saw myself.  I remember going back to the gym one day my Fall semester senior year, and with all the internship and school stuff I was doing, I had gotten weaker than I expected.  And it made me sad and angry.  Sad because what I had thought was mine, my strength, was not mine anymore; and angry because I felt like no matter how hard I worked over the summer, and during school my Junior year, ...

Was in a mood to read some fiction this week.  All the books I've been reading up until now were going a little stale so I decided maybe it'd be cool to find another thing. So then I found out about this pretty promising book called Women and Men  by Joseph McElroy, whom I found through this BookTuber (book YouTuber) named PaperBird.  Actually the book wasn't discussed in any of his videos (at least I don't think so); I read about it in one of his blog posts.  He has a Blogger too ( link to his site ).  His Blogger actually inspired me to want to make a blog on here, instead of WordPress (which became not free all of a sudden, which was surprising) or Medium (which has either a lot of coding how-to tutorials or self-improvement guides that are cranked out by like the same three people, so not really the space I wanted to write). I actually got a book recommendation from him before, with Edouard Leve's Suicide  and Autoportrait , so when he talked really...